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"Your Favorite Chinese multi-sensor distributed spying platform".
Every device manufacturer tends to fib a bit on battery life vs. real world, however, 45 mins of flight time is impressive. Even if its 30-35 mins fully maxed out that can give you a lot of time to creat content and explore
I find that DJI fibs about their transmission range, but not battery life.
Awesome new cameras, but how do you land these things safely on a sailboat? It's always tricky and scary.
I was sailing in Croatia (on sails) and we’ve spotted some dolphins. So I launched a Mavic Air to observe them from closer. Soon the wind picked up and so did the waves. I piloted the drone back to the boat and planned to catch it in my hand, but I haven’t felt comfortable doing so, since the boat moved like crazy, while the drone was static in the air. Don’t forget to imagine the million ropes and wires in the air, which is just the reality of being on a sailboat. Wind howling, captain shouting orders, drone’s proximity and low battery alarms loudly screaming.
I had to do something, so I hovered above the bow net and killed the motors. It fell into the net and didn’t damage its propellers/gimbal.
edit: 2.5MB dolphin video: https://files.catbox.moe/98n85f.mp4
What I'd want is to be able to remote control it from any other device, it doesn't really matter if it's an Android/iOS app or running on linux/windows.
Does anyone have an authoritative source on what data DJI captures and relays to China?. I want to buy a drone but concerned about privacy.
https://www.precisionhawk.com/hubfs/Retest_DJI%20Cybersecuri...
https://www.auvsi.org/sites/default/files/DHS%20report.pdf
This is from the DOI, see from page 40 https://web.archive.org/web/20190916135227/https://www.doi.g...
>We did not detect any leakage of data to DJI servers with any of the apps. However, all three apps make a Domain Name System(DNS) request to the computer hosting the WiFi network to resolve the IP address of "www.dji.com" when they are first started. This DNS request goes to the router or a DNS server, and does not actually communicate with any DJI servers, but it does tell the app the IP address of DJI servers. The DJI Pilot Beta app follows this DNS request up with a ping to one ofthe DJI servers, and receives a ping response back. This ping is used by the app to check that the server is up and can receive messages. The ping does not contain any data, but the server could get the IP address of the tablet and the time the app was started (since that’s when the ping is sent)
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